Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
Interpretation
Time may help alleviate pain, but it doesn't truly heal emotional wounds.
This quote by Chris Marker explores the complex relationship between time and emotional pain. It suggests that while time can soften the edges of hurt caused by separation, it cannot completely heal the wounds associated with deep emotional loss. The passage highlights the idea that the impact of separation lingers within us, unaffected by the passage of time, leading to a disembodied sense of loss and desire that endures even as the pain shifts over time.
In practice
In a speech about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Chris Marker poignantly stated, time heals everything - except wounds.'
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
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